Using software (like Maxima?) as a math tutor



> strangely what i hear from people in engeneering fields is that they are big users of Matlab (or free
> clones, Octave, Scilab), and have little use of Mathematica or Maple.

> Michel Talon

A search of Monster.com using the keyword "mathematica" gives 29 jobs; for "matlab" 799 jobs.  

--Barton